Is country music big in Northeast rural towns?

[HEyHEY]

I mean if you go in a gas station or something, is it playing? Or is that a Southern/breadbasket thing?

[stellanoir]

1. in my sleepy

south coastal seaside berg in New England, the only gas station in town is run by a jovial gent who blasts bootleg Grateful Dead tunes and most strangely, is a former * supporter (operative word being "former"). He posts a word quiz of the week where you can win a buck if you can define it and has a funny poster board with all sorts of outrageous photo shopped stuff. He's such a character that I can forgive him for voting for * and he's since seen the light. We're in a deep blue state anyhoo.

[oneighty]

2. Western New York State

Has plenty of country/western music and clothing and horses and people that actually ride the horses. A nearby village has a very popular annual Rodeo. It ain't called Western New York State for nothing!

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[JVS]

3. We don't have music

It angrys up the blood.

[HEyHEY]

6. And makes people fornicate

[JVS]

7. Who fornicates because of country music?

[HEyHEY]

8. cousins

[JVS]

10. oh dear lord

[MissMillie]

4. Yeah, it's big in the small towns up here

and even has a pretty solid following in some of the larger cities.

[rogerashton]

5. The stars and bars and two-step

can be found in the roadhouses of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

[opiate69]

9. Eastern Connecticut is big on country...

In fact, when i was in high school back there, all of my first professional gigs were in country bands. Lots and lots of country bars in the woods out that way.

[Old and In the Way]

11. Central Maine checking in.

It's popular, but much less so then 20-30 years ago.

Fascinating bit of arcanna...about 20 years ago, there used to be a locally (Bangor, Me) produced show called "Dick Stacey's Country Jamboree". It was actually something I'd look forward too. We get properly herbally medicated and watch this live TV program every Saturday night. It was quite hilarious.....think of it as live CW TV amatuer karyoke. The participants would take it pretty seriously, but it was usually pretty gawd awful. Dick Stacey was the emcee star and the commercials were primarily extolling his motel to the Nova Scotians. Dick would be in one of the rooms, saying something like "see these beds? These are comfortable sleeping beds, mighty soft..."

Lot's of Canadian CW enthusiasts would tune in and participate. I think (I know from my trips to Digby) there was a huge CW following in the Atlantic provinces.

On another note, my 16 YO daughter is playing in a Bluegrass Band locally. Her middle school teacher started the group about 3 years ago. They are cutting their 1st CD tracks today. It's been fun to watch a bunch of kids grow into a pretty competent band....they play "Ripple" such that they'd maked Jerry proud...